Ooh! Love the addition of ships and also the ability to set categories and genres etc. on a per site basis. And scroll is helpful too-- I'd actually removed my separate pairing column as I tried to have fewer columns and was doing pairings as sub-categories, but now have added Relationships back into the mix.

I was stumped briefly when I couldn't find where I could adjust preferences for the plug-in. FWIW I've been using the plug-in on my Mac just fine without any crashes. First crash I had in some time came after adjusting from where you can configure things now (plug-ins page). Only happened the once though. (Am running OS X 10.7.4 on an 11" Air.)

I was stumped briefly when I couldn't find where I could adjust preferences for the plug-in. FWIW I've been using the plug-in on my Mac just fine without any crashes. First crash I had in some time came after adjusting from where you can configure things now (plug-ins page). Only happened the once though. (Am running OS X 10.7.4 on an 11" Air.)

If you change the config a lot, you can set a hotkey to pull up the FFDL config dialog.

Without a Mac of my own to test on, and the rather sporadic problem reporting for Mac I've been getting, I went with a rather brute force 'fix'.

I've noticed that with a few stories at the A03 archive the download and convert to epub doesn't quite work. They appear to work in Calibre (I can view the stories on the Calibre Viewer) However when I transfer the stories to my Sony PRS-650 I get an error message that says, "Page Error."

It fetched the metadata and then the story data and then told me that it had found 0 updates?, although the story is not in my library yet. Next thing I said "fuck it!", gave it the story link plus ALL the chapter links at once and waited what happened. It fetched the metadata and then the story data and then ... told me that it had found 0 updates, and this time I had set it to overwrite. Can I give you some debugging info somehow, is there a mode I can activate? The GUI "log" gives me nothing.

[I also downloaded 7 other fanfics from fictionalley by the same author, all of them downloaded normally.]

I've noticed that with a few stories at the A03 archive the download and convert to epub doesn't quite work. They appear to work in Calibre (I can view the stories on the Calibre Viewer) However when I transfer the stories to my Sony PRS-650 I get an error message that says, "Page Error."

The epub fails only on your Sony PRS-650? And only for some stories, while others still work? That suggests bad/unusual HTML in those particular stories.

My current solution has been to re-convert the files to epub. However, I'm not sure why this happens to some stories and not others?

I'm able to d/l these two and view them on my Nook fine. Running them through epubcheck shows only minor HTML errors, and those errors are still there after epub->epub convert. I don't have a Sony PRS-650 to test on, so that's the best I can do for testing. If you post an epub that has the problem here, that might help some.

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I also noticed that I cannot add multiple story links to the fan fiction downloader box because then they all have the Page Error message and I wasn't sure if this was related?

Shouldn't be. A single URL is just a batch of one--the same code is used.

Are you sure it isn't all new downloads giving that error? Because that I could possibly explain.

A few versions back, I added some new CSS to help with a problem on Nook. It's possible that addition ("adobe-text-layout: optimizeSpeed;") is what's causing your problem. You could try putting the snippet below (removes "adobe-text-layout") in your personal.ini and see if that helps.

The epub fails only on your Sony PRS-650? And only for some stories, while others still work? That suggests bad/unusual HTML in those particular stories.

It's hard to test on other devices because I only have the Sony PRS-650.

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I'm able to d/l these two and view them on my Nook fine. Running them through epubcheck shows only minor HTML errors, and those errors are still there after epub->epub convert. I don't have a Sony PRS-650 to test on, so that's the best I can do for testing. If you post an epub that has the problem here, that might help some.

I've attached an example EPUB to this message.

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Shouldn't be. A single URL is just a batch of one--the same code is used.

Yeah that's what I thought but in earlier tests I found that it only works if I enter one url at a time. Otherwise I'd get the page error message. I haven't tested it recently to see if anything has changed but I can.

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Are you sure it isn't all new downloads giving that error? Because that I could possibly explain.

A few versions back, I added some new CSS to help with a problem on Nook. It's possible that addition ("adobe-text-layout: optimizeSpeed;") is what's causing your problem. You could try putting the snippet below (removes "adobe-text-layout") in your personal.ini and see if that helps.

I've downloaded at least 50 stories in the last month and only about 6 of them had the page error message so I don't think it's only new downloads that display this problem. It's been there at least 5 months because I've using the plugin since April.

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Another possibility is that sometimes different skins can cause problems. If you've reskinned AO3 try switching back to the default skin.

Once configured, FFDL will fill in the chapter number as reported by the source site. If it's not populating, make sure you have 'Update Metadata' checked when you do the download. I keep 'Default Update Calibre Metadata' on the FFDL Basic config tab checked.

Tagging 'oneshot' is harder, since it's status=Completed and chapters=1. After you get chapter count filled you could find them and then mark them self, but that's about it.

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I have the Count Pages plugin that provides the wordcount, now all I need is the chapter count and maybe a way to automatically download the cover image from fimfiction.net

FFDL can fill a word count column with the word count as reported by the source site (but there are a couple sites that don't report word count). If you do both, Count Pages will overwrite the number from FFDL.

FFDL will include the cover image from fimfiction.net if it's configured to include images. There's a 'Include images in EPUBs' checkbox on the FFDL Basic config tab, or you can configure it more precisely in personal.ini.

Once configured, FFDL will fill in the chapter number as reported by the source site. If it's not populating, make sure you have 'Update Metadata' checked when you do the download. I keep 'Default Update Calibre Metadata' on the FFDL Basic config tab checked.

Tagging 'oneshot' is harder, since it's status=Completed and chapters=1. After you get chapter count filled you could find them and then mark them self, but that's about it.

FFDL can fill a word count column with the word count as reported by the source site (but there are a couple sites that don't report word count). If you do both, Count Pages will overwrite the number from FFDL.

FFDL will include the cover image from fimfiction.net if it's configured to include images. There's a 'Include images in EPUBs' checkbox on the FFDL Basic config tab, or you can configure it more precisely in personal.ini.

Jim

Thank you very much for the response, Jim.

It worked! I had it set to "overwrite if newer", so since the fic wasn't newer on the site, the metadata wouldn't update. It also updates the cover art automatically as well!

Now, I just have a couple more questions. First: Is there a way to always update the metadata, but only overwrite the epub if it's newer on the site? Does "Always Overwrite" essentially accomplish this?

Also, is there a way to set calibre to automatically convert the epub that FFDL downloads to a mobi file? I found that I need to download the book as an epub and THEN convert to mobi, so that I get the chapter marks and skipping function on my kindle. (Thanks to this thread. )

And lastly, have you considered perhaps adding the ability to download all stories by a single author on a site? It's not urgent, or anything. Just an idea. Right now I use this extension to get multiple urls and it works a treat.

Thanks. Aside from being momentarily surprised at the extra metadata calibre writes when you save and epub to disk, I don't see anything unusual in it.

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Yeah that's what I thought but in earlier tests I found that it only works if I enter one url at a time. Otherwise I'd get the page error message. I haven't tested it recently to see if anything has changed but I can.

Can you check that again? Because I just checked to be sure and there is literally no difference between an epub generated by FFDL one at a time vs with a group except the Packaged timestamp.

This is the only symptom that might indicate a problem with FFDL instead of the content from the site.

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I've downloaded at least 50 stories in the last month and only about 6 of them had the page error message so I don't think it's only new downloads that display this problem. It's been there at least 5 months because I've using the plugin since April.

If it's not recent, and it's limited to only a few stories, I'm leaning toward it being some oddity in the HTML of those specific stories that bothers your Sony device.